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Avicii – Wake Me Up! lyrics
Feeling my way through the darkness
Guided by a beating heart
I can't tell where the journey will end
But I know where to start
They tell me I'm too young to understand
They say I'm caught up in a dream
Well life will pass me by if I don't open up my eyes
Well that's fine by me

So wake me up when it's all over
When I'm wiser and I'm older
All this time I was finding myself, and I
Didn't know I was lost


So wake me up when it's all over
When I'm wiser and I'm older
All this time I was finding myself, and I
Didn't know I was lost


I tried carrying the weight of the world
But I only have two hands

Hope I get the chance to travel the world
But I don't have any plans

Wish that I could stay forever this young
Not afraid to close my eyes

Life's a game made for everyone
And love is a prize

So wake me up when it's all over
When I'm wiser and I'm older
All this time I was finding myself, and I
Didn't know I was lost

So wake me up when it's all over
When I'm wiser and I'm older
All this time I was finding myself, and I
I didn't know I was lost

I didn't know I was lost
I didn't know I was lost
I didn't know I was lost
I didn't know
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Songwriters: Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins, Michael Aaron Einziger, Tim Bergling
Wake Me Up! lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
Corrected by sunshine07

Wake Me Up! meanings

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    Great song. Brings you back to life when life is sometimes dragging you down. If you love life, people, and the world, then this song is for you, when you hear nothing on the daily news except wars, hatred, conflict, or this nation is better than other nation, bla. This earth belong to all of us regardless of colour or creed. Make music your religion, and soon you will see how you and others are one belonging to one earth, which is the home of all people. Thanks avicii, and keep your great music flowing.
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    Brings back the memories for me and my siblings who grew up on his music. Its still awsome after 7 years. I remeber when it was relased and everyone knew it in my town, the problem was that i doesn’t knew what it said. (im Hungarian so English is just my second language) The next song from him that hit me this hard was “Broken Arrows” i loves it but in 2016 i had so many things to do that i completly stopped listening to music. In 2018 when he passed away i just knew it from the media. But i didn’t searched up any details, etc. (My grandmother passed 1 earlier than him)
    Than in October 2019 ive seen a video titled:
    “The evolution of Avicii”. It brought back so many memories... So i started listening to his old music again. BUT there was a twist! I acutally understanded the lyrics. And than it hit me: “Every Avicii song has a deep meaning” .
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    I love this song and people you wanna know something yeah! We are all difrent but that has no reasson to judge and this song proves if your gonna be a hater and judge be un cool and rude and mean but then it shows the people who take the respect of being difrent and I know I'm difrent and I don't care it makes me diffrent from everyone else and I just wanna be me! So now tell me its wrong and not right to be the same when it isn't right just be you be difrent don't be affraid to show who you turly are don't be scared to sine bright don't be affrid to show who and what you are every one is made difrent for a reason to not be the same as every one else but just to be you and I'm glad to be me and not someone else to be happy that I'm not the same like other people to know I am diffrent from everyone else makes me really happy beacuse all I what is to be the first me not the same as whoever else you know be glad your difrent and its good to be diffrent and it makes you! You! And to let you know its 100% all the time to be diffrent then annyone else out there so don't say oh. I wanna be like so and so. People just be you its ok. Just don't try and be like someone else and just show your light respect yourslef be proud of who you are because I know I'm proud of who I am because some people just don't understand the ture meaning of being difrent it doesn't mean your werid or stupid it means you are you and to be proud ofwho you are.
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    I love this song and people you wanna know something yeah! We are all difrent but that has no reasson to judge and this song proves if your gonna be a hater and judge be un cool and rude and mean but then it shows the people who take the respect of being difrent and I know I'm difrent and I don't care it makes me diffrent from everyone else and I just wanna be me! So now tell me its wrong and not right to be the same when it isn't right just be you be difrent don't be affraid to show who you turly are don't be scared to sine bright don't be affrid to show who and what you are every one is made difrent for a reason to not be the same as every one else but just to be you and I'm glad to be me and not someone else to be happy that I'm not the same like other people to know I am diffrent from everyone else makes me really happy beacuse all I what is to be the first me not the same as whoever else you know be glad your difrent and its good to be diffrent and it makes you! You! And to let you know its 100% all the time to be diffrent then annyone else out there so don't say oh. I wanna be like so and so. People just be you its ok. Just don't try and be like someone else and just show your light respect yourslef be proud of who you are because I know I'm proud of who I am because some people just don't understand the ture meaning of being difrent it doesn't mean your werid or stupid it means you are you and to be proud ofwho you are.
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      Great song. Brings you back to life when life is sometimes dragging you down. If you love life,... Read more →
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